I don't see how a 9 page study from 1974 (with only the first page visible) talking about people selecting between rectangles has more authority than Leonardo Da Vinci's famous discovery of the proportions correlating to the human body. You just researched it half arsed and tried to find a quote real quick that supported your gross association to Nazism and pseudoscience. I hope this gets popular just so more people can see how horribly ridiculous your arguments are in calling proportional symmetry a concept similar nazi aerian superiority. You can't reply and you run away only because you didn't bother to see how ridiculous and irrelevant the article you were citing was. I'm honestly disgusted and even more disgusted you'd try to correlate this to a debate between a religious fundamentalist and a logical person. You're shameless and unwilling to admit it was a hyperbolic claim you made ignorantly thinking the golden ratio was some kind of hollywood hype rather than a real mathematical ratio. Sick. Just. Sick.

Mathematical proportions and symmetry relating to beauty is not BS or nazism. I hope the way you cited that article without reading it will haunt you at night.

omfg... you did not just compare the golden ratio to the bible code... It's a reoccuring mathematical constant that occurs very often in nature like pi.

omfg... you did not just compare the golden ratio to the bible code and elvis burritos... It's a reoccuring mathematical constant that occurs very often in nature like pi but then again you probably thing Pi is a conspiracy too huh? Phi is the mathematical symbol for the golden ratio. Type it in google and google calculator will give you the number... do you think google is a conspiracy too? I wouldn't doubt it. pfft...elvis burritos.

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That's a 9 page article asking 3 groups of 55 people to chose different rectangles that appeared in some magazine!! What does THAT have to do with beauty? The golden ratio has also been applied to music. Heck even Zelda Music uses the golden ratio.
http://www.thetanooki.com/2007/03/03/zelda-music-of-golden-proportions/


Da Vinci was the first to identify that the proportions of the human body have the golden ratio occurring over and over again. I'm sorry but this picture:
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/images/vitruvian.jpg

is a little more famous than your articles about people's preferences selecting rectangles.

> Basically almost everyone on this earth who looks 'normal' will fit within that graphed mask.
no. Symmetry between the right and left side of the face is a big part of beauty. The more healthy people look, also the more beautiful. I can give you a source if you want but seems like common sense.

>Besides, it's no rocket science that you'd find a man with 2 feet of jaws and a cranium the size of Jupiter not fit for 'pretty ratio'. Duh.

??? Yeah the more disproportionate the more people are generally considered ugly. Similarly the more in perfect proportion the more good looking. I don't see why you say duh, because that's just supporting the golden ratio, which you call BS and compare to nazism in the first comment... how upsetting too. This vid shows people how to have fun with gimp, learn a little more about the structural differences between a male and a female (the main point), and on the side teaches people about how the golden ratio corresponds to the face. I hope people don't look to your comment as a review for the video -_-.

> legacy0100
Da Vinci is the one that showed how the human body, not just the face is symmetrical with the golden ratio. You might recognize the images below...
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/images/vitruvian.jpg
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/images/blue_head.jpg

In a study they found attractiveness comes down to simple averages, which in turn fit more closely to symmetry of the golden ratio
http://www.livescience.com/health/060927_attractiveness_mind.html
http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average

Da Vinci's ideas and the what people think is beautiful is not Nazism...

See the official revision video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbMMFcOYgGs . If you go to jimmyr.com it'll automatically do the add all the extra stuff for you. Just type the name of the song.